Seed-Robbing between Ant Species Intervenes in the Myrmecochory of Euphorbia characias
(Euphorbiaceae)

Espadaler, Xavier; Gómez, Crisanto; Suñrer, David

doi:10.1155/1995/37850

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Psyche
Volume 102, Issue 1-2, Pages 19-25
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1995/37850

Seed-Robbing between Ant Species Intervenes in the Myrmecochory of Euphorbia characias (Euphorbiaceae)

Xavier Espadaler,¹ Crisanto Gómez,² and David Suñrer²

¹C.R.E.A.F., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
²Departament de Ciències Ambienlats, Universitat de Girona Plaça Hospital, 6., Girona 17001, Spain

Received 10 August 1994

Abstract

A case of interference competition in which some ant species (Messor barbarus and Aphaenogaster senilis) rob seeds of Euphorbia characias from other ants (especially Tapinoma nigerrimum) is reported. Seed robbing is here regarded as a possible natural impediment to myrmecochory as it may interfere with the seedling recruitment process of the myrmecochorous plant.

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

Seed-Robbing between Ant Species Intervenes in the Myrmecochory of Euphorbia characias (Euphorbiaceae)

Abstract